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Sunday, 23 June 2013

Cockle Shells & Silver Bells....

No silver bells but plenty of shells in these garden wind chimes. I've had the shells for a very long time but never got around to using them, so finally a couple of weeks ago (when I retrieved my drill from the porch debacle!) I drilled holes in them, found some wonderful curly pieces of wood in the bargain bucket at our local garden centre, and strung them up. This one is my favourite, with the wood used vertically.

But this one is nice too! I made them for sale at the summer fair I attended yesterday - once again sales were very low and I returned with most of my stock intact, which was disheartening. I considered putting these for sale on Etsy but worry that postage would cost far too much because of the weight. If you would like one of these and would be willing to pay the postage, do get in touch. In the meantime, they will adorn my house instead - something I have no problem with whatsoever!

In the garden, I actually have a couple of very small tomatoes. Despite the fact the tomato plants have been battered by wind, suffered torrential rains, and had to deal with unseasonally cold temperatures, they are now flowering so I am hopeful we might get a better crop this year than the past couple of 'summers'. Early days yet - last year the weather deteriorated from the end of June onwards, so I could still lose them. As far as the competition with Soggibottom, I think I have lost that already!

Bizarrely, despite the horrendous weather over the past 10 months, we have a bumper lot of figs on our tiny tree this year. No idea why that should be, I just hope we get to eat them.

On the needles this week....car wheels. Tedious but necessary, four down, one to go.